James Baldwin's White Audience Of America

James baldwin was an incredible writer and debater. He wrote from the mid-to-late 20th century, and his impassioned, outstanding work stands as an amazing resource for white people audience trying to understand some of the race related problems that we will never have to experience. And his audience need to understand the problems that he addresses, because white america audience caused these problems hundreds of years ago, and it is white people who allow them to persist today through willful ignorance and inaction. That’s not an attack on anyone of course and certainly not anyone in particular. It is simply an observation based on many, many observations , documented, and honorable facts. For these reasons and some others,. This essay

The reality is that baldwin is right. The world is stacked in favor of white people in american, and is therefore stacked against people of color. Why? Because America have set it up this way. Bering white comes with tons of privileges. That’s not up for debate based on factual history that occur in this country . Pretty safe to say that james baldwin never have experienced that privilege, and in those rare circumstances where that privilege was not present to him at all , Baldwin was immediately and powerfully aware of its lacking. White privilege is real, and it protects us from many horrible forms of discrimination. We might be discriminated against for some other factors, but the literal color of our skin will never be held against us by society, and that is a huge privilege on its own. If you’re coming into this discussion and you’re not yet thoroughly convinced that white privilege is real, please be in touch. We can talk about it. To return to Mr. Baldwin’s essay, he goes on to compare the conditions for African Americans to the ones written in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. This paints a colorful rhetoric, if cheerless, picture. That book, as you may recall, paints the aristocracy as having a callous disregard for the lives and happiness of the lower class and poor. One parallel that he is drawing here, is that white people are the members of the American destruction. By virtue of our birth, we are afforded privileges. That means that by virtue of their birth that is, their skin color African Americans are subjected to penalties. They don’t receive the benefits we do, so our benefit is their burden. This observation is captured in the following passage from the